We came across several Tweets mentioning Conshohocken getting a shout out during Sunday’s broadcast of the PGA Tour’s Tournament of Champions from Hawaii. Apparently the Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner, who does play by play, stated “We are a long way from Conshohocken” when beauty shots of Maui were being shown.
Lerner grew up in Allentown and went to Temple. He now lives in Florida. We believe the broadcasters stayed at the Marriott in West Conshohocken when the US Open was played at Merion in 2013. That might be why he is familiar with Conshy.
We tried to find the video, with no luck (were not watching four hours of golf to find it either).
Here are the Tweets:
@MoreThanTheCurv During Tournament of Champions broadcast on Golf Channel today the announcer said “We are a long way from Conshohocken” during overhead shot of Maui. Dont have video clip.
— MarshallSchreibstein (@TheStein79) January 8, 2018
@RichLernerGC was watching from Conshohocken when you mentioned it…14 degrees here @GolfChannel @PGATOUR @Sentry_TOC
— Joe Corcoran (@JoeCorcoran7) January 8, 2018
Did @RichLernerGC just mention #Conshohocken on the #PGATour #SentryTOC final round telecast?
— Chris Hanson (@CHansonGolf) January 8, 2018
Thanks for the Conshohocken shout out Sunday afternoon/evening!
— Bob Zipperlen (@bobbyzip) January 8, 2018
@GolfChannel @RichLernerGC it is freezing in Conshohocken right now. But you warmed our hearts with the shoutout. #SentryTOC
— Kitty Betham (@cbetham) January 8, 2018
Rich Lerner busting out “we’re a long way from Conshohocken”. I’m not and it’s freezing here!
— #Foleszyvania (@baldjoe) January 8, 2018
Nice shoutout to Conshohocken last night during TOC – Rich Lerner @GolfChannel @PGATOUR @RichLernerGC
— Bill (@billsyrn) January 8, 2018
Did you catch the Conshohocken reference in the broadcast???? WTF? Nobody has ever referenced Conshy on national tv.haha
— Doug Tornetta (@TheRealTikiDoug) January 8, 2018